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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Riot squads stormed Nowa Huta just one day after Roman Catholic church mediators had persuaded plant directors to negotiate with the strikers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Polish Police Break Up Steel Mill Strike | 5/6/1988 | See Source »

Recently, the prisoners successfully sued Suffolk County for failing to maintain the facility's physical plant, which, according to Williams, is "ready for the bulldozer." As a result of the suit, prisoners are locked up for extra hours to avoid health and safety problems, he says...

Author: By Michael E. Wall, | Title: When Worlds Collide: Tutoring in Prisons | 5/4/1988 | See Source »

...real arguments have more to do with symbolism than logic. Adoption of the plant-closing provision would give organized labor one of its few legislative victories of recent years, and the AFL-CIO is going all out to win. It has threatened to withdraw its support of the whole bill if the plant- closing provision is stripped from it. Corporate and White House opponents fear not so much that the provision will do great damage in itself but that it will set a precedent for increasing Government regulation of business, which is anathema to Reagan's free-market philosophy. Some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Send Them a Message | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

...other side, Gary Holmes, spokesman for the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, asserts that the plant-closing provision "will make our industries less competitive internationally . . . It injects rigidities into the system ((and)) makes it less flexible." But that does not explain why Japan, which has a notice system, and West Germany, where it is difficult to fire anyone, let alone close a whole plant, are competitive enough to force the U.S. to consider a sweeping trade bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Send Them a Message | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

...Reagan gets an earful on the Meese malaise at Justice. -- A squabble over plant shutdowns imperils the trade bill. -- Ferries are back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

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